EP0490455A2 - Method and apparatus for interfacing smart cards with terminals - Google Patents

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EP0490455A2
EP0490455A2 EP91203260A EP91203260A EP0490455A2 EP 0490455 A2 EP0490455 A2 EP 0490455A2 EP 91203260 A EP91203260 A EP 91203260A EP 91203260 A EP91203260 A EP 91203260A EP 0490455 A2 EP0490455 A2 EP 0490455A2
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    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
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    • G07F7/10—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means together with a coded signal, e.g. in the form of personal identification information, like personal identification number [PIN] or biometric data
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    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
    • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
    • G06K19/067—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components
    • G06K19/07—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips
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    • G06Q20/30—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks
    • G06Q20/34—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
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  • the present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for interfacing smart cards with any terminal.
  • inventive method consists in the features of claim 1.
  • inventive additional embodiments of the inventive method are described in subclaims 2 to 4.
  • the invention uses a process which allows efficient use of the smart card capacities by actual terminals.
  • This process is based on the following architecture:
  • a terminal equipped with a display, a pointing device (e.g. a keyboard), a smart card reader and a smart card which is likely to be changed in future are combined together.
  • the terminal must have the following capacities which are quite normal:
  • a communication protocol between the smart card and the terminal is implemented in the terminal comprising the following commands:
  • a terminal 1 is equipped with display means 2, one or more pointing devices 3 such as e.g. keyboard or mouse, a smart card reader 4 and a smart card 5.
  • the terminal 1 may be equipped with a specific user interface based on different policies, for instance displaying pop-up menus or drawing keys on a touch sensitive display. All these user interfaces have the above mentioned capacities.
  • a communication protocol between the smart card and the terminal comprising the following or additional commands is implemented in the terminals:
  • any smart card emulating the protocol will be able to interface itself with any terminal emulating the same protocol whatever its user interface is.
  • the smart card will be able to perform through the terminal actions which were not defined when the terminal was created. The terminal will follow technological progresses of smart cards.
  • Advantageously terminals with different user interfaces may use the same smart card. That can be useful in case of terminals belonging to different services but sharing the same smart card, for instance in PAY TV where each program provider has its own personalized decoder but is able to use the smart cards of the other providers, or for GIE like banking.
  • the protocol also allows delivering of different type of cards being able to perform more or different actions (something similar to the CB VISA and the PREMIER CB).

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for interfacing smart cards with any terminal.
The memory capacity and the features of smart cards are increasing exponentially. Therefore a terminal with a card reader designed today will hardly be able to follow future evolution of smart cards.
The invention uses a process which allows efficient use of the smart card capacities by actual terminals. This process is based on the following architecture: A terminal equipped with a display, a pointing device (e.g. a keyboard), a smart card reader and a smart card are combined together. The terminal must have the following capacities which are quite normal:
  • to display a list of action which will be described in ASCII characters;
  • to select actions;
  • to enter key sequences;
  • to display messages and clear them afterwards.
A communication protocol between the smart card and the terminal is implemented in the terminal comprising special commands.

Description

  • The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for interfacing smart cards with any terminal.
    • Background
  • The use of smart card devices is growing quickly. The memory capacity and the features of such smart cards, like those of other electronic components, are increasing exponentially. Therefore a terminal with a card reader designed today will hardly be able to follow future evolution of smart cards.
    • Invention
  • It is an object of the present invention to disclose a method of using different smart cards with any terminal.
  • In principle the inventive method consists in the features of claim 1.
    Advantageous additional embodiments of the inventive method are described in subclaims 2 to 4.
  • It is a further object of the present invention to disclose an apparatus for the inventive method.
  • In principle the inventive apparatus consists in the features of claim 5.
  • The invention uses a process which allows efficient use of the smart card capacities by actual terminals. This process is based on the following architecture:
    A terminal equipped with a display, a pointing device (e.g. a keyboard), a smart card reader and a smart card which is likely to be changed in future are combined together. The terminal must have the following capacities which are quite normal:
    • to display a list of action which will be described in ASCII characters;
    • to select actions;
    • to enter key sequences;
    • to display messages and clear them afterwards.
  • A communication protocol between the smart card and the terminal is implemented in the terminal comprising the following commands:
    • a) issued by the smart card
      • SEND ACTION LIST: the smart card sends to the terminal a list of actions;
      • SEND KEY SEQUENCE: asks the terminal to request the user to enter an information;
      • DISPLAY MESSAGE: requires the terminal to display a message;
      • DISPLAY ERASABLE MESSAGE: like command DISPLAY MESSAGE but the user will initiate the message clearing.
    • b) issued by the terminal:
      • ACTION LIST REQUEST: the terminal asks the smart card to send a list of actions;
      • ACTION SELECTED: the terminal returns to the smart card data of the action selected by the user;
      • KEY SEQUENCE: the terminal sends to the smart card a key sequence;
      • END OF CLEAR: the terminal informs the smart card that the command DISPLAY ERASABLE MESSAGE and/or a command CLEAR SCREEN have been finished.
  • The above mentioned command names are examples and may be changed. The function of these commands is essential.
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  • Preferred embodiments of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:
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    shows a terminal combined with a smart card read er.
    Preferred embodiments
  • A terminal 1 is equipped with display means 2, one or more pointing devices 3 such as e.g. keyboard or mouse, a smart card reader 4 and a smart card 5. The terminal 1 may be equipped with a specific user interface based on different policies, for instance displaying pop-up menus or drawing keys on a touch sensitive display. All these user interfaces have the above mentioned capacities.
    A communication protocol between the smart card and the terminal comprising the following or additional commands is implemented in the terminals:
    • a) issued by the card:
      • SEND ACTION LIST: the smart card will send to the terminal a list of actions. Each action will be constituted by a number identifying the action, a length byte and the name of the action written in ASCII characters. In answer to that message the terminal will display the list of actions and wait until the user has selected one. After that it will send the command ACTION SELECTED.
      • SEND KEY SEQUENCE: asks the terminal to request the user to enter an information. The parameters are e.g. the number of expected characters, masks for the permitted characters (for instance only 0-9), some texts to be displayed in order to explain something to the user.
      • DISPLAY MESSAGE: requires the terminal to display a message and waits for the next action performed by the smart card.
      • DISPLAY ERASABLE MESSAGE: Identical to DISPLAY MESSAGE but the user will initiate the message clearing.
      • CLEAR SCREEN: the whole display shall be cleared.
      • END OF SESSION:
    • b) issued by the terminal:
      • ACTION LIST REQUEST: the terminal will ask the smart card to send a list of possible actions.
      • ACTION SELECTED: the terminal will return to the smart card a number identifying the action selected by the user.
      • KEY SEQUENCE: the terminal will send to the smart card a key sequence.
      • END OF CLEAR: the terminal will inform the smart card that the actions DISPLAY ERASABLE MESSAGE and/or CLEAR SCREEN have been finished.
  • By using this protocol any smart card emulating the protocol will be able to interface itself with any terminal emulating the same protocol whatever its user interface is. Advantageously the smart card will be able to perform through the terminal actions which were not defined when the terminal was created. The terminal will follow technological progresses of smart cards.
  • Advantageously terminals with different user interfaces may use the same smart card. That can be useful in case of terminals belonging to different services but sharing the same smart card, for instance in PAY TV where each program provider has its own personalized decoder but is able to use the smart cards of the other providers, or for GIE like banking.
  • Advantageously the protocol also allows delivering of different type of cards being able to perform more or different actions (something similar to the CB VISA and the PREMIER CB).

Claims (5)

  1. Method for interfacing smart cards with terminals, whereby a smart card (5) is connected by a smart card reader (4) to a terminal (1), and whereby said terminal is provided with display means (2) and with the following capacities and/or commands:
    - send to said smart card (5) first data which cause said smart card to send a list of different actions to said terminal (1);
    - send to said smart card (5) second data identifying an action selected by a user;
    - send to said smart card (5) third data identifying a key sequence;
    - send to said smart card (5) fourth data identifying that said user has cleared a message and/or said whole display means (2);
    and whereby said smart card (5) is provided with the following capacities and/or commands:
    - send to said terminal (1) fifth data containing said list of said actions;
    - send to said terminal (1) sixth data which request said user to enter an information using said pointing device (3);
    - send to said terminal (1) seventh data identifying said message;
    - send to said terminal (1) eighth data and wait for clearing of said message by said user;
    - send to said terminal (1) ninth data which cause said terminal to clear said display means (2);
    - send to said terminal (1) tenth data identifying the end of a session.
  2. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that said fifth data contain numbers identifying said different actions, a byte identifying the length of each of said actions and ASCII characters identifying the name of each of said actions.
  3. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said sixth data contain numbers of expected characters and/or masks of permitted characters and/or messages which explain something to said user.
  4. Method according to any of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that said second data contain a number identifying the kind of said action selected by said user.
  5. Apparatus for a method according to any of claims 1 to 4, containing a terminal (1), display means (2), one or more pointing devices (3), a card reader (4) and a smart card (5), which exchange first to tenth data as claimed in claim 1.
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